CONTESTATION AND RENEWAL IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES: A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF PHYLLIS RACKIN Saturday, April 6, 2002 University of Pennsylvania After forty years of teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Phyllis Rackin will be retiring at the end of the 2001-2 year. The University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring a conference to honor her on this occasion. A former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, Professor Rackin has written such influential books as _Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles_ and _Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories_ (with Jean Howard), and has published numerous important articles in journals such as _PMLA_ and _Shakespeare Quarterly_. Over the years she has made a lasting impact on the lives of thousands of students, and her insightful scholarship, love of teaching, and personal warmth will be remembered for generations to come. CONFERENCE PROGRAM: 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM -- Registration and Breakfast 10:00 AM -- Opening Remarks Jean Howard (University of Pennsylvania) 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM -- Session 1: Sexual Differences Chair: Margreta de Grazia (University of Pennsylvania) Julie Crawford (Columbia University), "Ladies' Cabinets" Will Fisher (Lehman College, CUNY), "'That Codpiece Ago': Codpieces and Masculinity in Early Modern England" Valerie Traub (University of Michigan), "The Joys of Martha Joyless" 11:30 PM - 12:30 PM -- Plenary Session Lena Cowen Orlin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Shakespeare Association of America), "Making Space for Women in History: The Case of Alice Barnham" 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM -- Lunch Speaker: Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania) 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM -- Session 2: Racial Histories Chair: Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania) Rebecca Ann Bach (University of Alabama at Birmingham), "Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Othello: Race and Emerging Heterosexuality" Kim Hall (Fordham University), "Race and Geography in the Early Modern Carribean" Rachana Sachdev (Susquehanna University), "Circumcising Turks" 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM -- Session 3: Performing Gender Chair: Cary Mazer (University of Pennsylvania) Peter Parolin (University of Wyoming), "Cooks, Books, and Bodies: Preparing Food, Producing Gender on Early Modern Stages" Sarah Werner (George Mason University), "Arming Cordelia" Barbara Hodgdon (Drake University), "The RSC's 'Long Sonata of the Dead': Shakespeare-History and Imagined Community" 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM -- Session 4: Women Writing Chair: Sean Keilen (University of Pennsylvania) Gwynne Kennedy (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Writing Women's Anger and Revenge" Lisa A. Freeman (University of Illinois at Chicago), "The Woman Writer as Public Paradox" Wendy Wall (Northwestern University), "Household 'Writing,' or the Joys of Carving" 6:15 PM -- Closing Remarks David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania) 6:15 PM - 8:00 PM -- Reception ---- The conference will take place on the University of Pennsylvania campus. The registration fee is $10 and includes a continental breakfast, a box lunch, and the evening reception. To register, please send your name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation (if any) to: [log in to unmask] The registration fee will be payable at the door. Please register in advance to guarantee that a lunch will be available for you. The registration table will be located in the Schneidman Lobby of Logan Hall. All paper sessions will take place in Room 17, Logan Hall. Lunch will be served in the Hall of Flags in Houston Hall, and the evening reception will be in the Rosenwald Gallery on the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library. If you do not have access to e-mail, you may register by sending your name, phone number, and institutional affiliation to: Phyllisfest c/o Erika Lin 119 Bennett Hall Department of English University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6273 More information about the conference can be found at: http://www.english.upenn.edu/Conferences/Phyllisfest/ This conference is sponsored by the Department of English, the Medieval-Renaissance Discussion Group, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Provost's Office, the University of Pennsylvania Library, the Women's Studies Program, the Comparative Literature and Theory Program, and the General Honors Program.